Table Poetic syntax (Syntax figure name and examples)
| November 13, 2020 | Education
| Syntactic figure name | a brief description of | An example from a poetic text |
| A rhetorical question | Syntactic technique; question not requiring an answer | The snow is falling thick, thick. Keeping up with him, with those feet, At the same pace, with that laziness, Or at the same speed, Maybe time passes? Maybe year after year Followed like snow or like words in a poem? (B.L. Pasternak) |
| Rhetorical exclamation | Syntactic technique; an exclamation point conveying an emotionally expressive attitude towards the depicted | … And, having ripped off an immoderate fee, My attorney at law exclaimed; “Before you stands a citizen Cleaner than the snow of the Alpine peaks! ..” (N. A. Nekrasov) |
| Rhetorical appeal | Syntactic technique; appeal that does not contain instructions on a specific addressee | Hello, the Young tribe , unfamiliar! I’m not going to see your mighty late age … (A.S. Pushkin) |
| Repeat | Stylistic figure; repetition in a poetic text of the same words or expressions | I’m looking for transparency, not ghostly, I’m looking for gratitude, not recognition (S. I. Kirsanov) |
| Gradation | Repetition of semantically similar words that, gradually reinforcing each other, create and artistically enhance one image | “In the old days they liked to eat well, they liked to drink even better, and even better they liked to have fun.” (N.V. Gogol) |
| Antithesis | Stylistic figure based on contrast, opposition of concepts, images | They got along. Wave and stone, Poems and prose, ice and fire Not so different from each other … (A.S. Pushkin) |
| Inversion | Stylistic figure, consisting in violation of the generally accepted grammatical sequence of speech | “The doorman, he slipped past the doors along the marble steps …” (A. Pushkin) |
| Pleonasm | Stylistic figure; repetition of homogeneous words and phrases that have different stylistic functions depending on the context | I will laugh with my bitter laugh “(N. V. Gogol) |
| Alogism | Incompatibility, illogical combination of concepts, deliberate violation of logical connections in the work | Drank dead! didn’t sleep for nine nights! He rejected everything: laws! conscience! faith! (A.S. Griboyedov) |
| Anacoluthon | Stylistic device, syntactic inconsistency of parts of the sentence as an unconscious violation of the language norm; widely used in humorous and satirical genres | And animals from the forests come running to watch, How the ocean will be and whether it will burn hot … ( I.A.Krylov ) |
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